2023-11-04 08:30:40
The police in the Australian state of Victoria are clear: Erin Patterson – 49 years old – intentionally poisoned to several members of her ex-husband’s family last summer. After three months of investigation, the woman has been arrested as responsible for the death of the parents – Don and Gail Patterson, 70 years old – and the aunt – Heather Wilkinson, 66 – of her former romantic partner, at that she would have intoxicated with a deadly fungus during a lunch he organized at his home on July 29.
They were also invited to the meeting the father of her children -engineer Simon Patterson-, who decided not to attend the appointment at the last moment, and another diner who was seriously affected but managed to escape alive, the pastor of the Baptist church Ian Wilkinson. He was her aunt’s husbandis 68 years old and was discharged on September 23 after going through a coma and two months in hospital. At first, the possibility that the poisoning had been the result of an accident was explored. But that hypothesis was not supported.
It was already suspicious that the only ones they came out unharmed of that family meal were Erin herself – who had prepared the dishes – and her two sons. But the researchers’ investigations have taken them even one step further. Not only do they accuse the Australian of being the author of the crime of the three relatives of her ex who attended the lunch, but they also accuse her of five counts of attempted murder: Simon’s, Ian’s and three others that correspond to events that would have occurred between 2021 and 2022.
According to the Victoria State Police, it would be “three separate incidents” related to a 48-year-old man from Korumburra, whom they do not identify but who – it has emerged – would be Erin’s ex-husband, who also fell ill after eating with the arrested woman on several occasions. “The Today’s charges are just the next step to what has been an incredibly complex, methodical and exhaustive investigation carried out by Homicide Squad detectives,” explained Inspector Dean Thomas.
For now, Simon has preferred not to talk about what happened and wait for justice to be pronounced. Just this Friday, Erin appeared before the judge for the first time and her defense accepted the 20-week postponement requested by the police to analyze computer material seized during the search of his home. However, some local media have reported on a publication that the ex-husband of the arrested woman made last year through his networks after suffering from a mysterious illness intestinal.
In May 2022, he would have explained that he collapsed and was “in an induced coma for 16 days”. A time in which they performed “three emergency operations.” He would have been so seriously ill that “they asked my family to come say goodbye to me twice.” The doctors did not expect him to survive. And this would not have been Simon’s only suspected illness. The Guardian reports – mentioning police documents – of two more assassination attempts in November 2021 and September 2022.
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The alarms went off after the fatal poisonings of the July 29. That day there was nothing to predict that a tragedy of such magnitude was approaching. Don and Gail Patterson went to the house of their ex-daughter-in-law Erin, with whom they had a good relationship, to see their grandchildren and have lunch together. To the Family food Heather and Ian also joined. And her former husband, Simon, was scheduled to attend. But an unforeseen event prevented him from doing so and most likely saved his life. That’s what the police believe.
The arrested woman entertained her diners with a succulent sirloin Wellington. A piece of meat with mushrooms wrapped in puff pastry which ended up being fatal for three of the four guests who tried the dish, who died between August 4 and 5. Contained Amanita phalloides, better known as green oronja, canaleja or the mushroom of death. Its appearance is similar to that of some edible species, but its ingestion is very dangerous. Its toxins seriously affect the kidneys and liver.
Why did you throw away the dehydrator?
Erin’s version changes haven’t helped prove her innocence either. She initially claimed that she was completely unaware of how those poisonous mushrooms could reach her plate. She later explained that she had bought some fresh mushrooms in a supermarket and some dehydrated ones in an Asian store, implying that They must have been sold to them by mistake..
The truth is that no other similar incidents have been recorded (poisonings due to ingestion of this poisonous mushroom) nor have any products on sale in the area been withdrawn. Furthermore, Erin did something that gave her away and that she would end up recognizing as the investigation progressed: disposed of a dehydrator in a landfill. According to her, she said, it was the result of panic upon finding out that she was being investigated.
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